The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-11-19
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| city. 1t would be we'll for all to remember tina
allowing the old numbers to remain on their house
subjects them to fine of S.
The fair held four nights the past week il
the public school building, Towsontown,was in al
respects successful, the attendance being large
the patronage liberal. handsome sum will b.
realized and will be applied to paying the debt
the piano used by the school.
| A gunner from Philadelphia was arrested
| at CAROLS Island on Sunday night last on tn,
charge of shooting ducks after dark. Constable
Grace, of the 18th district, who made the arrest
took his prisoner to Havre-de-G Grace where hi
was discharged by magistrate.
| Some of the machinery of Phoenix factory
| is now in operation and as soon as the race il
gotten in proper condition, which will be in few
days, all of it will be started. The mill is to be
| lighted by electricity, Messrs Bosley & How, o.
Baltimore supplying the plant.
| "A petition from citizens of Howardville
! Baltimore county, on the line of the w. M. R. R.
has been filed at the Postofice Department, asking
that the postofice at that place, which discon
tinued several weeks ago, be re-estabshed, with
| Miss Ada Harvey as postmaster.
| Another weather wise fellow has found any
| number of "signs," all of which indica-
lions of a hard winter. We don't go much on
these predictions-in fact experience teaches that
there is nothing in any of them and they are there
| fore not worth paying any attention to.
| Mr.. Jacob Algire, of Arcadia, 9th district,
| now nearly IS years of age, drives his own four
horse team to Baltimore and lately has been max
| ing three trips week hauling hay. 1t is said
that he walks nearly all the way to and from the
| city, making little use of his saddle horse.
Over one thousand ducks have been killed
| so far this season at the San Domingo ducking
| point, on the Gunpowder. Capt. John Ridgely,
| of Hampton, who shoots at that point, has killed
far 1875, and the president of the club, who
lives in Allegany county, has killed over 300.
The mail schedule between Kingsville, 18th
district and Gwinn, Md. Central r. R., has been
changed so that the mail will leave Kingsville
daily, except Sunday, at a. M, and arrive at
Gwinn at a. m. Leave Gwinn after arrival of
of mail train, and arrive at Kingsville one hour
later.
The new County Commissioners will have
about $50 appointments to make soon after the LIST
of January, and no one envies them the job. The
string of applicants will be very long one and as
every one of them will have some friends the pros
pect for the new Board is not particularly peas-
ing one.
We had a slight fall of snow here the
18th of November-the first of the season-and it
is said that many days as the month is old when
the first fall occurs, just so many SHOWS will
we have that winter. So if you want to take the
trouble you can count and see if we have more than
eleven SHOWS.
"A young lady in the upper end of the coun-
ty, who always mashes her hustle sitting on it in
church, wants her indulgent father to cut hole in
the back of the family pew big enough for it to go
through and thus preserve its shape. The old
man does not think the exigencies of the case re-
quire resort to any such means.
Mr.. Benjamin P. Butler, who is to be clerk
for Mr.. Tracey, went to Annapolis on Tuesday for
the Sherif's commission, but the Governor was
not there and he failed to get it, so that Mr.. Tracey
did not go in on Wednesday, as was expected. 1t
is likely he will take charge Of the office to-day.
The Sheriff bonds in the sum of S25. 600,
The legal battle over the crematory lot on
Charles street avenue extended, in the Belt, is
about coming to end, Messrs. Winfield j.
Taylor and Benjamin f. Horwitz, counsel for the
property owners and Crematory Company, re-
spectively, having entered into an agreement to
sell the lot to Rev. Franklin Wilson for 81 500.
"A man named William Ellison has been
arrested on warrant issued by Justice Knight, of
Clifton, Sd district, on the charge of stealing a
newspaper. He was committed to Towsontown
Jail. Some people think it is a trifing matter to
take newspaper that does not belong to them and
to such the of Ellison should prove a warning
"A number of charitable ladies have opened
a night school on Fourth street, in tine Belt, for
boys and girls who work in the mills on the
Falls road, and whose parents are unable to send
them to day schools. A medical department is
connected with the school and medicines and treat
ment furnished free to those unable to pay for
them.
On Saturday night last Elizabeth Wilson,
colored, of Homestead, Hartford road, locked up
her house and went to market. When she returned
she found the back door open and bureau drawer
minus $3.50 which she had left therein. About
half the money belonged to her and the balance
to two colored men who had given it to her for
safe keeping.
Before election an active Towsontown Dem
re ss o SE 81 bs @ The
turns we're in. The election went his way but for
some unaccountable reason he abandoned his big
scheme and has since been selling off his barrels.
The barrels worth about $1.25 each, and the
ashes wouldn't bring cent
-Trespass notices, on muslin, can be had
very cheap at THE UNION Office, but this fact does
not deter some people from supplying their own
wants in this direction. For instance, a certain
Baltimore county farmer has his property posted
with notices that read as follows: "Eny purson
ketched on these grounds, or COWS, or wimen, will
be libu two fine itself into a skrape."
"A most extraordinary revival has been in
progress for several weeks at Hunts M. Z. Church,
near Sherwood. Up to last week there had been
fty-three conversions and on one Sunday fifty
united with the church on probation. Rev. E.
Mowbray, under whose ministrations this great
work has been carried on, is a young man and
this is his first year in the ministry.
"A Towsontown gentleman who some times
makes Democratic campaign speeches, was caught
went to meeting in the western section of the
county and not single one of the candidates put
in an appearance. The Towsontown man made
his speech and then had to "set 'em up for the
boys" and it just cost him SIS to do it.
No. of The Enterprise, an amateur paper
published at Towsontown by Master Osborne 1.
Yellott, has been received. 1t contains the first
chapter of serial, written by the editor, called
"a Martyred Editor" and other interesting read
ing matter. The paper is neatly gotten up and
shows that its publisher, who does his own work,
is quito expert in the art typographical.
"A white man who lives near Loeb Raven,
four miles from Towsontown, did not know there
was an election on the Sth inst, until informed
afterwards. The same man is neighbor of Mr..
John w. Shanklin, who has been Clerk of the Cir
cult Court two years, and although he knew that
Mr.. S. came to Towsontown every day he did not
know what business it was that brought him here.
Fact.
Among the rumors about the Court House
this week one that Mr.. J. Hartman Schone, of
the 18th district, is to be chief clerk to Mr.. Nor
gan, the new County Treasurer, and another that
Mr.. G. Philip Laurenson, at present clerk in the
County Commissioner Office, is to be made assessor
for the 9th district 1t is believed that Mr. George
G. Tracey will be continued in the Treasurer's
Office as assistant clerk.
-Messrs. r. Quincy Hall and G. G. Rhodes,
counsel for William Blouse, have docketed suit in
the Circuit Court here against the Northern Gen.
trail R. R. Company, claiming $4,000 damages for
the killing of Henry Blouse, son of the plaintiff,
at Mt. Vernon yards last June. The declaration
recites that the deceased was freight brakeman
employed by the company, was under age, and
SO employed without the consent of his father.
1t is said now that Mr.. B. W. Ady, the new
ly-elect Register of Wills, has not yet determined
who the Deputy Register is to be, although the
friends of Mr.. Joseph B. Herbert feel quite conf
dent that he will be the man. Mr.. John F. Con-
rey is also being strongly backed for the place and
it is believed the appointment lies between these
two gentlemen. Mr.. Ady, who had been quite sick
for two or three weeks, was able to be in Towson-
town Wednesday, the first time since the election.
"A well-known Baltimore business man, who
owns q handsome farm in Baltimore county, was
a subscriber to THE UNION and through some mis-
understanding his paper was stopped at the end
of the time the subscription was paid to. In or
dering the subscription renewed he wrote: "When
1 want THE UNION discontinued hope to be able
to notify you of that fact over my own signature
1 want to keep posted on what is going on in opr
county, and must have a live paper, as am not a
politician and want no Office of any kind"
"A few days ago minister from the western
section of the county was driving to Towsontown
when he overlook boy trudgiug along in the
same direction. He invited him to ride and they